📝 Selected Papers

(* indicates equal contribution, # indicates corresponding author)

Publications

AAAI 2025
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Fusing Pruned and Backdoored Models: Optimal Transport-based Data-free Backdoor Mitigation

Weilin Lin, Li Liu#, Jianze Li, Hui Xiong

  • One of the few data-free defense strategies against backdoor attacks.
  • First adaptation of OT and model fusion on backdoor defense.

The Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2025

NeurIPS 2024
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Unveiling and Mitigating Backdoor Vulnerabilities based on Unlearning Weight Changes and Backdoor Activeness

Weilin Lin, Li Liu#, Shaokui Wei, Jianze Li, Hui Xiong

  • New insights on unlearning weight change and backdoor activeness.
  • Propose an effective defense strategy using reinitialization and fine-tuning.

Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada, 2024

Preprints